re: #111 Spare O’Lake

Reasoning with ethnic or religious haters of any stripe is generally a colossal waste of time and effort. And appealing to an anti-Semite on the basis of some pretended interest on their part in peace between Jews and Arabs is to ignore the essential defining interest of the anti-Semite…Jew-hatred, plain and simple.

A genuine anti-semite probably wouldn’t be interested in the idea of peace between the Jews and anyone, so that would be a tough sell if one were speaking only to a ‘bunch of anti-semites’.

To suggest that everyone on the left who supports the idea of peace in the middle east (a category which includes, among other things, a great many Jews) is an anti-semite is ludicrous.